[EDIT 2: You can see how long it takes me to write answers here mally and Richard. Sorry Richard, your last post has just come up now so anything I have written below was written prior to your post. I am dead tired, worn-out, etc but I am hoping that some of what I wrote below, if not all, will be of some help to you.]
[Edit: Sorry, mally, my brain might be slipping but I am embarrassed to say that I actually don't know what GP stands for - lol! I hope the below though will answer at least some of your question
. Hope it wasn't me that coined "GP" - lol!]
Nup, the sparge doesn't add anything to the end result
into your kettle. If your recipe requires 5 kgs of grain and 5 gallons of water, it does not matter if you add the water in one hit or several hits.
I think this makes sense to you and you understand this.
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You, mally are one of the very few who know and understand 'the washing machine' analogy. Think about this problem from that perspective. How much dirt, relative to the water applied is that first wash cycle getting out? Bugger all. It is really just loosening the stains. However, if all the water available had been added at the start, the stains would not only be loosened, they would have dissolved as much as possible as well.
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I think I need a few days break. I'm a bit worn out. See
here. I don't like writing when I am worn out as I always write badly.
I also get frustrated that my writing might make things sound as though they should be easy to understand. Some of these areas are really very hard to get your head around. For example, I have known about Richard's PLG questions for some time but it was probably only today that I had time to stop and think and have that aspect fall into place into my head. My writing on this probably makes people think it is easy/obvious.
What I am trying to say is that a lot of this number stuff is very simple once you see it. At present, in the brewing world, everyone is thrown a pair of very dirty, smudged reading glasses to see through when it comes to numbers. This site, is way ahead of any other but we still have leaps to go to make all this stuff easy, if there is actually any demand.
Mally, grab a beer and have a few more re-reads of my last post if you get time. This washing machine stuff needs anyone to do that. If it does 'click' I hope you will post back here.
Gotta go and, as I said or implied above, I really need a few days break.
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